My Sleepless Adventure

I'm alive. I've been awake or without proper sleep since 6am yesterday (Thursday). Last night, I embarked on my night adventure with Evangeline. At 11pm, I was seated at my desk and ready to brave the night life. I kept the room light on throughout the night so that my cells would think it was day and hence not ask my brain to shut down. Within the 7 hours I had, I managed to cover 4 subjects. It was really surprising how fast time flew. The whole "night" seemed to be over very fast. Smsing Jy's phone every hour was something I looked forward to because it helped me to countdown to breakfast.

For the first few hours, I was tired and wanted to go sleep, but I forced myself not too. After a while, the tiredness subsided. I happened to be doing A Math Geometrical Proofs and I found myself canceling and rewriting my working over and over again. I kept reading questions wrongly and proved the wrong triangles and sides a few times. In conclusion, A Math is unsuitable for working on at that hour, unless you're an owl or a bat.

The good thing about doing work during sleeping time is that there are no distractions. I managed to stay relatively focused for the 7 hours.

After the first few hours of overcoming tiredness, hunger starts to set in. I was getting quite hungry but breakfast was still about 3 hours away. I don't know much about bio, but I think it's because the body needs more energy when you stay awake compared to resting. Probably my stomach is just weird. Evangeline ate so little for dinner but she didn't even feel hungry.

At the crack of dawn, Evangeline and I took a 15-20 minute power nap before our actual waking time (5 and 6am respectively). I found it hard to fall asleep because I was so exhausted that breathing was tiring. I found myself breathing more than usual. Also, my room was so cold I found it hard to warm up my bed within the short amount of time before I could finally knock off. Therefore, sleep quality was low.

Today, National Day was celebrated in school. I was enthusiastic enough to wear red and white. Again, it has to do with aging and retiring. To be accurate, I felt tired but not sleepy. Upon reaching class, Audrey gave me some sweet to eat so that I could boost up on sugar. She was worried I'd faint during the parade/ceremony later. Evangeline also recieved her dose of sugar. Anyway, I survived the flag raising. I nearly fainted during the National Day celebration 2 years ago. By the time I wanted to faint, I had to walk back to class. I must have looked like some drunkard. For the record, I fainted twice in Lower Sec during normal flag raising and Ellie was always the poor person who had to catch me when I fell backwards. Blame Thalasaemia minor.The only reason why I don't have to faint nowadays is because they abolished standing during devotions.

I will sleep at 11pm tonight. That means I would have awake for nearly 41 hours in 2 days. I hope I don't pass out. It's bad for health, but I don't think I'm ever going to get a chance to do this again.

Tomorrow is the liver scan day. No food till 11.30am. On the bright side, a wedding lunch buffet should be able to compensate.